George Frederick Sandrock b. 16 May 1819

  • Artist (Photographer)
Sandrock was a keen photographer, taking view photographs in the West Indies, Palmerston (Darwin), Bowen, Cardwell and Rockhampton. He was a customs officer, held a number of clerical jobs and had a large family.

Citations

  • '[Family papers]’.

  • Davies, Alan; & Stanbury, Peter (1985), 'The Mechanical Eye in Australia: Photography 1841-1900’, Melbourne, Vic : Oxford University Press.

  • McDonald, L. (1981), 'Rockhampton: A History of City and District’, St Lucia, Queensland.

See also

  • 'Port Darwin, Site where overland telegraph was joined to the underwater telegraph cable from Java, 1870?'.

Initial data sources

  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870